Jessica Romero

Name: Jessica Romero

Gender: Female

Age: 17

Grade: 12

School: John Endecott Memorial Academy

Hobbies and Interests: Climbing, volleyball, hiking, ecology, skateboarding

Appearance: Jessica stands at just above average height, at 5’6”, and weighs 122 lbs. She has a svelte figure formed from years of exercise. Her straight black hair goes down to just below her shoulders with bangs that sit just over the top of her brown eyes which themselves are small and thin. Her nose is also on the thin side and sits in the middle of her teardrop-shaped face, which almost always has a perpetual bored look plastered across it. Jessica’s speech pattern is very slow with her frequently elongating words, especially those at the end of sentences, and her voice is noticeably raspy.

Normally, Jessica wears colored or patterned t-shirts and jumpers under a retro Yosemite zip-up hoodie, while on her lower half she wears either jeans in colder months or shorts when it’s warm, with either plain trainers or boots on her feet. Jessica also nearly always either has a pair of Bluetooth over-ear headphones on her head or around her neck.

On the day of the abduction, Jessica was wearing a cerulean blue Black Diamond Big Wall t-shirt under a Superdry eclipse navy-colored Whitaker stripe crew jumper with her Yosemite zip-up hoodie over the top of both. She had on blue denim boyfriend jeans along with her boots. She was also wearing her over-ear headphones on the bus and had a grey Montana beanie hat in her backpack.

Biography: Jessica was originally born in Whitefish, Montana to Duane and Judith Romero and lived there for the first nine years of her life. Duane was a park ranger at Glacier National Park while Judith was a teacher who worked at the park as a seasonal volunteer during the summer months. The two ended up meeting each other by chance when Judith took a holiday to Glacier with friends and ended up chatting with Duane. Jessica’s childhood featured frequent trips to Glacier and other national parks in Montana such as Yellowstone and Bighorn Canyon thanks to her father’s job and her parents’ love of the outdoors and conservation.

These frequent trips filled Jessica with her own love of the outdoors, and conservation and ecology became one of her first big passions growing up. Whenever the family visited any of the parks, Jessica would always seek out a ranger to teach her something new about the area or the plants and animals that lived there. Her parents encouraged this love and would help a young Jessica with anything she wanted to know about the natural world.

When Jessica was nine years old Duane was shortlisted for a promotion that required a transfer to Massachusetts to help manage and run the parks in the state, with a particular focus on the Boston area. While Duane and Judith were at first unsure about him taking the job, they eventually reasoned that it was too much money to turn down, so Duane took the job and the family moved to Boston. While Duane settled into his new role nicely and Judith was able to find work as a teacher, the family found that they did not enjoy living in a big and bustling city such as Boston. So after staying for a year to allow Jessica to finish her elementary school education the family relocated once again, this time to Salem, which they chose thanks to its connection to American history and its smaller-town feel while still being close enough to Boston to not make travel an issue.

Jessica herself found the move disruptive at first and frequently missed being able to go to places such as Glacier and Yellowstone, but in time she was able to alleviate their absence with some of the other parks available to her in Massachusetts. This allowed her to continue her hiking and rock-climbing hobbies which she’d had since she was younger and living in Whitefish. While she enjoys both, rock-climbing has been Jessica’s biggest hobby since she was a child, she has trouble describing why exactly she latched so strongly onto the activity, but she enjoys both the challenge and freedom she feels when she gets to climb a pitch; she feels as if it is a meditation of a fashion as it is just her alone with nature.

During the summer holidays, Jessica will routinely travel to national parks across America such as Yosemite, Zion, and Rocky Mountain National Parks to climb different routes there and improve her own skills. Jessica views her rock climbing as a form of meditation and self-improvement and enjoys the connection she feels with nature when she is climbing up a route. The sense of achievement she gets when she completes a route is an aspect of climbing that she especially enjoys and finds somewhat addictive, meaning each time she finishes a route project she is drawn to a new, harder route to test herself.

While hiking gives her a similar feeling, Jessica treats it as a much more casual and relaxing activity, one that she can take part in with other people whereas her rock-climbing is much more focused on her own individual goals. Despite this, she is still passionate about hiking and will rarely turn down an opportunity to go on a hike and sets out goals of trails she wants to try and complete or walk part of. To this end, she has recently been to Clarksburg State Forest to walk part of the Appalachian Trail, something she wants to try and complete as much of as possible.

Skateboarding is Jessica’s other main hobby and was something she initially took up in Whitefish as a way to get around the town and also an activity to do in her free time. While Jessica is passable at skateboarding and can do a few tricks, she knows she is a long way off of being good. To this end, she enjoys the process of learning and practicing a new trick but doesn’t give it the same focus as her rock climbing or hiking projects, instead treating the process as a fun side activity.

After starting middle school Duane and Judith suggested that Jessica take up a sport so that she could have a sport outside of rock climbing that also allowed her to socialize with her new class. Of all the sports on offer, she picked volleyball as it was the one she found the most interesting and unique. As she came to play the game more, she found she enjoyed the teamwork and physicality needed for it, and it quickly became one of her favorite hobbies and something she has continued with throughout her school life. Jessica has yet to miss a practice session of the John Endecott Memorial team since she has been at the school and has become close friends with many of her teammates.

Around school, Jessica is a quiet and thoughtful person, who prefers to speak only when she has something worthwhile to say and can sometimes be slow to react to things that are happening around her. The only time she perks up and becomes more talkative is when the conversation revolves around one of her hobbies, especially climbing and volleyball. The only other time she is anything other than her usual self is when the topic of Mallory Valdez or her sister Martiza comes up as something happened between them but Jessica won’t say what, although the two girls’ hatred for each other is well-known around the school. The actual reason for this hatred goes back to when Jessica first moved to Salem. Maritza was one of the first people Jessica properly met in the town and over time they became very close. But abruptly and without any real warning, Maritza was sent away from Salem. Jessica doesn’t know the full reasons why it happened but she believes it may have been due to issues between Mallory and Maritza regarding Maritza’s sexuality. She does however know that Mallory was involved and has held an open hatred for her ever since.

Her favorite subjects at school are biology and geography thanks to their connections to the natural world. While she prefers studying physical geography thanks to its focus on natural processes Jessica also finds human geography interesting to think about and study. Jessica also enjoys studying chemistry although not to the level of the other two subjects.

Jessica has a strong relationship with her parents and still spends a lot of time within national parks with them. Following their encouragement, she is planning on attending college to study ecology with a focus on conservation. After doing this she hopes to follow her dad’s footsteps of working within the national parks department and wants to be able to get a job at either Glacier or Yellowstone.

Advantages: Jessica is in good physical shape with strong arms from climbing and volleyball that could assist her on the island. She also has a potential group of existing allies with her friends on the volleyball team and has experience in the wilderness thanks to all her time spent in national parks with her family as well as her hiking.

Disadvantages: Jessica is also naturally quiet and keeps to herself which could mean if she is in a group she could be overpowered by stronger personalities. Jessica’s slowness to react to happenings around her could also be to her detriment in the context of the game, meaning she could be put on the back foot in certain situations.

Designated Number: Student No. 017

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Designated Weapon: Camping stove

Conclusion: Perfect, right? Camping stove, girl who likes the outdoors. Don't say we never did anything for you - Abby Soto

'The above biography is as written by Deamon. No edits or alterations to the author's original work have been made.'

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